With three months to go before the start of the Chengdu 2021 FISU World University Games, FISU proceeded to the team draw at their headquarters in Lausanne (video below).

 

The draw involved three sports (men and women): Basketball, Volleyball and Water Polo.  

 

Eric Saintrond, FISU Secretary General and CEO led the event, under the supervision of Ulf Ohrman and Nikolaos Vasileiou, representing the FISU Technical Committee as Chairs for Basketball and Water Polo, respectively.

 

The team draw was assisted by Jing Zhao, FISU Games Summer Director, and Brian Carrer, FISU Games Summer Event Manager.

 

Basketball teams were allocated to four pools, Volleyball and Water Polo (men) teams divided in two pools and all Water Polo (women) teams placed in only one.

 

The teams were divided into tiers based on their FISU ranking, which is established according to results of previous FISU events, and with the IF support.

 

In addition, no more than three delegations from the same continent could be placed in the same pool, with the exception of women's Basketball (no more than two).

 

Once drawn in their respective pools, teams were seeded inside each pool through an additional draw, to ensure more random initial games. 

 

Watch the draw as it happened

 

 

 

 

 

The pools at a glance:

 

Basketball Women

 

POOL A	POOL B	POOL C	POOL D
SVK	ROU	POL	ARG
HUN	CHN	USA	CZE
TPE	POR	FIN	CRO
BRA	MEX		JPN

 

Basketball Men

 

POOL A	POOL B	POOL C	POOL D
CHN	CRO	GEO	JPN
POL	TPE	KOR	UKR
GER	POR	ISR	LTU
RSA	ROU	ARG	MEX
FIN	USA	MGL	SVK
BRA		CZE

 

Volleyball Women

 

POOL A	POOL B
BRA	JPN
POL	ARG
HUN	IND
CHN	MEX
TPE	HKG
	GER

 

Volleyball Men

 

POOL A	POOL B
CHN	TPE
KOR	CYP
POL	USA
MEX	ARG
BRA	JPN
IND	POR
CZE	GER

 

Water Polo Women 

 

POOL A

CHN

JPN

RSA

SGP

USA

HUN

 

Water Polo Men 

 

POOL A	POOL B
JPN	CHN
SVK	ITA
KOR	ISR
HUN	SGP
GEO	GRE
	USA

                                             

 

ARTICLE WRITTEN BY OLIVIER VAN BOGAERT